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gorbachev, 1989. the world's leader. gorbachev, whose country was in decline, the economy was in shambles, infant mortality rates and alcoholism rose. he was the world's leader. no wonder george bush feared him as 1989 began. as president of the united states, bush was supposed to be the world's most powerful leader, not this odd soviet intellectual who refused to disavow communism, even as he overturned it. perestroika was a dangerous ruse thought bush upon taking office. now i will return to bush momentarily, but first let me say the striking thing about mikhail gorbachev. for all of his visionary speeches, his most important words were uttered behind closed doors. 1989 is often recalled as the year in which so much happened. i contend, however, it is what did not happen. the decisions not made or rather the moments when leaders chose and consciously chose not to act that made all the difference. after a quarter century most of our fellow citizens have forgotten just how the demise of the soviet empire truly was so dan
gorbachev, 1989. the world's leader. gorbachev, whose country was in decline, the economy was in shambles, infant mortality rates and alcoholism rose. he was the world's leader. no wonder george bush feared him as 1989 began. as president of the united states, bush was supposed to be the world's most powerful leader, not this odd soviet intellectual who refused to disavow communism, even as he overturned it. perestroika was a dangerous ruse thought bush upon taking office. now i will return to...
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i am not sure even reagan or gorbachev realized what that was the forerunner to. what it was the forerunner to was negotiations in which every single -- every succeeding president including president obama who signed the treaty with putin last year and every russian leader, no matter how much they care about russian manifest destiny or empire has done this because of what reagan did. it means our children are not hiding under desks today. they are not practicing drills to protect us from the atom bomb which we remember from our childhood. on the other end, economics. ronald reagan left office in 1989. when he came into office we had some of the worst inflation and economic conditions we have ever had in this country. even today, we have very low inflation. we have had lots of ups and downs. that is the legacy of what reagan did. those are the two things i think about. the other thing i think about, what a -- stephen had said it, what a happy warrior he was. what a cheerful guy he was. he fought at the end of the day. tip called him up one day. he got along with th
i am not sure even reagan or gorbachev realized what that was the forerunner to. what it was the forerunner to was negotiations in which every single -- every succeeding president including president obama who signed the treaty with putin last year and every russian leader, no matter how much they care about russian manifest destiny or empire has done this because of what reagan did. it means our children are not hiding under desks today. they are not practicing drills to protect us from the...
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this was almost the only access to a family portrait that americans ever got before gorbachev came on stage but that was overshadowed because you remember she and nancy reagan didn't get along so that became an entirely different story. what i was trying to do was show what women were like. a lot of my narrative is about the women and how they looked at their life, close to the kremlin power but also how they were trying to branch out of the very rigorous system where you are supposed to be a great communist, were you supposed to be in great service to the state and the night every single in the individual and polls that you have and one of the stories i am talking about is leonid's white as it turned out that detective investigation, turning out this woman, my mother's mother, was actually never leonid's wife. they were never married. she was this great example of a woman who aspired to be a perfect soviet. female suffrage that the soviet union put forward, egalitarianism was a total sham, and in her case in particular the and aspiring to be a pilot and was one of those great young c
this was almost the only access to a family portrait that americans ever got before gorbachev came on stage but that was overshadowed because you remember she and nancy reagan didn't get along so that became an entirely different story. what i was trying to do was show what women were like. a lot of my narrative is about the women and how they looked at their life, close to the kremlin power but also how they were trying to branch out of the very rigorous system where you are supposed to be a...
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gorbachev and president bush. it was one which was echoed by the other western leaders, the british prime minister, the german chancellor, the french president. as we negotiated german unity. and if the question was, could a united germany stay in nato? , no.rst, gorbachev said if they unite, they have to leave nato. and we said, look, let them unite. , but we stay in nato will not extend nato to the territory of east germany. well, it turned out that legally, you could not do it that way. so in the final agreement, it was that all of germany would stay in nato, but the territory of used germany would be special and there would be no foreign troops and no nuclear weapons. later -- at that time, the warsaw pact was still in place. the statements made were very general. at one point, secretary baker told glover talk, nato jurisdiction would not move one inch to the east. mind,he had the gdr in but that is not what he said specifically. if i have been asked when i was ambassador of the united states in moscow in 1991
gorbachev and president bush. it was one which was echoed by the other western leaders, the british prime minister, the german chancellor, the french president. as we negotiated german unity. and if the question was, could a united germany stay in nato? , no.rst, gorbachev said if they unite, they have to leave nato. and we said, look, let them unite. , but we stay in nato will not extend nato to the territory of east germany. well, it turned out that legally, you could not do it that way. so...
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gorbachev and putin. with regard to gorbachev, in your research did you find evidence that another motivation, or bishop had, for ending the misadventure in afghanistan was that he had other fish to fry, namely to reform the soviet union? so that there was basically a domestic, you know, we have to fix her own country and get out of afghanistan. with regard to what our colleagues call mr. putin, operative in the kremlin, 35 years after the soviet union invaded afghanistan, a post-soviet leader, putin, invaded another neighboring country, namely ukraine. and there have been, there's some evidence and certainly some speculation that that could be disastrous or at least bad for russia over the long run for reasons that relate actually to afghanistan. i remember as a journalist going to central asia about three months after the invasion, told by central asian authorities that the recent had gone to afghanistan was because, it was the equivalent of a forest fire there and wanted to keep the forest fire from ju
gorbachev and putin. with regard to gorbachev, in your research did you find evidence that another motivation, or bishop had, for ending the misadventure in afghanistan was that he had other fish to fry, namely to reform the soviet union? so that there was basically a domestic, you know, we have to fix her own country and get out of afghanistan. with regard to what our colleagues call mr. putin, operative in the kremlin, 35 years after the soviet union invaded afghanistan, a post-soviet leader,...
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gorbachev tear down this wall. ronald reagan fundamentally ended the cold war and brought gorbachev to the bargaining table so we got a strategic arms agreement. >> but since i was the chief of staff, i'll give you a small little element, when i had just gotten appointed chief of staff, and i was at home, this was about 2:00, 2:30 in the morning and i got a call from the secret service and secret service said, mr. panetta, because, you know when you get a call at that time in the evening, it's not good news. said mr. panetta, i'm sorry to tell you but a plane just went into the white house, i said what the hell was it, a 747 what kind of a plane went into the white house? he said no, it's a light plane, it went up against the white house, we think it may have damaged the jackson magnolia tree. i said wait a minute, this could be a terror attack on the president. have you looked in the plane, is there explosives in the plane? and the answer was, well, according to cnn news -- >> it's true. >> true. i said no, i woul
gorbachev tear down this wall. ronald reagan fundamentally ended the cold war and brought gorbachev to the bargaining table so we got a strategic arms agreement. >> but since i was the chief of staff, i'll give you a small little element, when i had just gotten appointed chief of staff, and i was at home, this was about 2:00, 2:30 in the morning and i got a call from the secret service and secret service said, mr. panetta, because, you know when you get a call at that time in the evening,...
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gorbachev tear down this wall. ronald reagan fundamentally ended the cold war and brought gorbachev to the bargaining table so we got a strategic arms agreement. >> but since i was the chief of staff, i'll give you a small little element, when i had just gotten appointed chief of staff, and i was at home, this was about 2:00, 2:30 in the morning and i got a call from the secret service and secret service said, mr. panetta, because, you know when you get a call at that time in the evening, it's not good news. said mr. panetta, i'm sorry to tell you but a plane just went into the white house, i said what the hell was it, a 747 what kind of a plane went into the white house? he said no, it's a light plane, it went up against the white house, we think it may have damaged the jackson magnolia tree. i said wait a minute, this could be a terror attack on the president. have you looked in the plane, is there explosives in the plane? and the answer was, well, according to cnn news -- >> it's true. >> true. i said no, i woul
gorbachev tear down this wall. ronald reagan fundamentally ended the cold war and brought gorbachev to the bargaining table so we got a strategic arms agreement. >> but since i was the chief of staff, i'll give you a small little element, when i had just gotten appointed chief of staff, and i was at home, this was about 2:00, 2:30 in the morning and i got a call from the secret service and secret service said, mr. panetta, because, you know when you get a call at that time in the evening,...
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with gorbachev, the two summit a meetings, and the treaty. we got a supreme court nominee, anthony kennedy from here and california and northern california approved overwhelmingly by a democratic senate.lierwhel and i know this is going to ming sound weird, but we had all 13 appropriation bills passed on time. not bad for a b-movie actor in the last two years of his term. [ applause ]. >> erskine, you were there. >> well, we balanced the budget. >> that's true. [ laughter ]. [ applause ]. >> yeah.months and to get that done, i had to d spend months and months and up months locked up in conference d rooms locked up with newt gingrich.owe me you all owe me a lot for that. i'm telling you. president clinton loved being president. he loved it. he delighted in it. he wanted to use everyday to ee make this country a better placr to live and work and raise your family.ac i mean, i'll give you an example of something that shows his humanity.ly you know, every -- literally almost every day he would come y over from the east wing to the west wing and h
with gorbachev, the two summit a meetings, and the treaty. we got a supreme court nominee, anthony kennedy from here and california and northern california approved overwhelmingly by a democratic senate.lierwhel and i know this is going to ming sound weird, but we had all 13 appropriation bills passed on time. not bad for a b-movie actor in the last two years of his term. [ applause ]. >> erskine, you were there. >> well, we balanced the budget. >> that's true. [ laughter ]. [...
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well, we had originally gone to cover the visit of mikhail gorbachev, two of the most powerful communist nations in the world had met. we had been on the air 12 hours a day for about a week and a half. and we still had another eight hours left on our satellite lease, which we never believed they would allow us to bring in our own satellite dish because it gave us more freedom than any other broadcaster had ever had. and among the major networks, only a couple of us had our own transmissions. it was a big deal. anyway, our lease was about to run out in eight or nine hours time. the pictures were so fabulous i was told to try to keep us on the air for a while longer. and that's what this argument is about. in retrospect if, they let our lease run out and not renewed it, this could've gone very quietly. but as it was, this became a moment like you said that foreshadowed it. if they were willing to treat the free press like this, what were they going to do to their own people? and i think this made the situation a lot -- seem a lot more serious for viewers, viewers at home and also to people
well, we had originally gone to cover the visit of mikhail gorbachev, two of the most powerful communist nations in the world had met. we had been on the air 12 hours a day for about a week and a half. and we still had another eight hours left on our satellite lease, which we never believed they would allow us to bring in our own satellite dish because it gave us more freedom than any other broadcaster had ever had. and among the major networks, only a couple of us had our own transmissions. it...
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. >> a few weeks later in mid-may, the situation intensified when soviet premier mikhail gorbachev heads to china. >> remains a world turned upsidedown tonight. >> he was an advocate in his home country. his visit gave them an opportunity to go to the streets and express themselves in a way they had not before. >> they knew they had the world watching them. >> and this also enraged the chinese authorities who are used to stage managing every photo op. and suddenly they had no control. >> after gorbachev leaves and the protests continue, chinese authorities change their tactics. >> the chinese communist party cracked down, and they declared martial law. >> despite repeated warnings from the government, the protesters refused to leave tiananmen square. everyone expects the government to act, but few predict what actually happens next. >> on the night of june 3rd, the square was filled with people milling around. we started getting rumors the army was starting to shoot its way into the center of downtown beijing. >> all of sudden we hear this noise. boom, boom, boom, boom. >> under orders f
. >> a few weeks later in mid-may, the situation intensified when soviet premier mikhail gorbachev heads to china. >> remains a world turned upsidedown tonight. >> he was an advocate in his home country. his visit gave them an opportunity to go to the streets and express themselves in a way they had not before. >> they knew they had the world watching them. >> and this also enraged the chinese authorities who are used to stage managing every photo op. and suddenly...
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it left gorbachev scrambling at the end. we've had seer turmoil in the middle east, oil goes down. turmoil in venezuela every time oil goes down. the reason why putin is in the ukraine is the big gas and oil reserves. >> good point. john, we should mention something, all this oil production increase, yes the dollar has something to do with it, but it's on private lands. we could increase oil production much more if they released the public land rights. those have gone down tremendously under president obama. federal drilling permits have gone down from 66,000 in 2008 to -- excuse me 6600 in 2008 to 3700 in 2013. so increase oil production and it's good for everybody? >> well, i'm all for that, but the reagan model is a lot simpler, a stronger dollar brings down the oil prices, it has little to do with pumping the oil. what that would do is a magnet for investment into the united states, it would boost our economy at the same time while bringing down commodities across the board, and it would hurt those countries, a lot of these backward countries that are relying on commodities. yo
it left gorbachev scrambling at the end. we've had seer turmoil in the middle east, oil goes down. turmoil in venezuela every time oil goes down. the reason why putin is in the ukraine is the big gas and oil reserves. >> good point. john, we should mention something, all this oil production increase, yes the dollar has something to do with it, but it's on private lands. we could increase oil production much more if they released the public land rights. those have gone down tremendously...
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. >> i think for american citizens, the lesson is what ronald reagan used to say to gorbachev about arms control. trust but verify. i think for policymakers, the lesson is don't necessarily trust your gut. look for dissent and debate, and this is one of the questions that the insider historian asked, why would my agency, the national security agency, supposed to present unbiased intelligence to policymakers? why would we slant it? and he asked three or four conclusions. one was pressure of the moment. two is precursor messages that showed attacks were coming. three, you know what the top policymakers want to hear. four, you saw the president on tv announcing the bombing attack. now you're going to be the one to walk into the oval office and say oops. nope. wrong. maybe shouldn't have done that. no. you're not going to be that intelligence analyst. and the other reasons in part is that once the top policymakers take those steps, then they really only want to listen to the folks who reinforce the decisions they already made, the course of action they'd been intending to take for a while. a
. >> i think for american citizens, the lesson is what ronald reagan used to say to gorbachev about arms control. trust but verify. i think for policymakers, the lesson is don't necessarily trust your gut. look for dissent and debate, and this is one of the questions that the insider historian asked, why would my agency, the national security agency, supposed to present unbiased intelligence to policymakers? why would we slant it? and he asked three or four conclusions. one was pressure...
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that and that breaking the one thousand nine hundred agreement with the then soviet leader mikhail gorbachev of course you've already touched on it the timing is fascinating with the nato summit starting this week in wales how do you think this announcement is going to change the rhetoric that we had coming out of that nato summit well i'll tell you looking at the media here in london i don't think many of the journalists have been basically repeating the mainstream journalists here it's difficult for international viewers maybe to fully understand the level of propaganda over ukraine certainly here in london and in mainstream media they don't know what to do all those diplomatic correspondents all the journalists supposedly covering the impending nato summit talking about it what's going to be happening the people in the state department journalists now what are they going to say because from them there was one narrative the kremlin wants to expand russia's borders who knows as far as britain we had we literally it's very difficult for us to understand. for me to understand as a journalist
that and that breaking the one thousand nine hundred agreement with the then soviet leader mikhail gorbachev of course you've already touched on it the timing is fascinating with the nato summit starting this week in wales how do you think this announcement is going to change the rhetoric that we had coming out of that nato summit well i'll tell you looking at the media here in london i don't think many of the journalists have been basically repeating the mainstream journalists here it's...
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gorbachev. either one of you can adjust this. -- can address this. that would be harder to correct. >> i must agree. it will sound very undemocratic but i am advocating the view that ordinary people should be much less engaged in the end -- in the discussion. the advocating of international affairs. i am very conservative, if you want. i'm afraid that the quantity of public engagement into the district -- into the discussion isinternational affairs overreaching the acceptable and needs to be reduced. paper, my big our is -- which could help relationship while touching the hearts of the people and keep the important issues of national survival on of dialogue. to say.sh is not enough semi-your english is excellent. -- >> your english is excellent. you speak of a deed disappointment and a resentment that is born of disappointment. reset we are talking about is not a reset towards the fantasy of warmth in the relationship and the united states. realism ofet for the the coldness of that relationship. normalize a relationship based on strategic interests s
gorbachev. either one of you can adjust this. -- can address this. that would be harder to correct. >> i must agree. it will sound very undemocratic but i am advocating the view that ordinary people should be much less engaged in the end -- in the discussion. the advocating of international affairs. i am very conservative, if you want. i'm afraid that the quantity of public engagement into the district -- into the discussion isinternational affairs overreaching the acceptable and needs to...
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once gorbachev in the late 80s began the conversation about history, what's really wrong and how really wrong in howitzer system setup, since people didn't have to collaborate anymore and they didn't feel obligated to go along with what the party wanted him to sing the song and keep chanting that the party is always right then they stopped. c-span: after the wall came down we did a 30 hour special and east germany. i just remember interviewing a man, i believe his last name as number -- zimmerman who was one of those that started a revolution, the silent revolution outside of the opera house. he turns out to have been a member of the stasi and i don't know what the word is, rabbit on his own family. i'm not sure if he is alive today. what kind of mentality is it? here is a guy that helped the revolution begin back to freedom but he was a member of the secret police and east germany. guess that this question of collaboration is an incredibly complicated and it's more complicated than we in the west like to think. people very often weren't only a collaborative. they were collaborators and
once gorbachev in the late 80s began the conversation about history, what's really wrong and how really wrong in howitzer system setup, since people didn't have to collaborate anymore and they didn't feel obligated to go along with what the party wanted him to sing the song and keep chanting that the party is always right then they stopped. c-span: after the wall came down we did a 30 hour special and east germany. i just remember interviewing a man, i believe his last name as number --...
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mikael gorbachev declares the soviet union is history. >> she and her husband raised four children. now she has her first granddaughter, olivia, and is excited to spend more time with her family. >> ann compton, everybody knows is not only the consummate professional but also just a pleasure to get to know. i was proud to be able to hug her grandbaby recently. i suspect that may have something to do with her decision. >> when the president of the united states announces on live television you are retiring, there is no way to change her mind. [laughter] >> no turning back now. her last day is wednesday. that will be 41 years today since she began her career. all of us at abc 7 news say congratulations, ann. a wonderful person. >> absolutely. we are proud to call her a colleague. congratulations. coming up, the new plan to help you get your coffee faster. i'm inside the arena at the university of maryland. we hey, jennar fuzz mike troober munny sling... awwwwww scram! i'm crust mike jubby roll bond chow gonna lean up an kiss bet. peas charty get t town down. [laughter] ♪ borf a live
mikael gorbachev declares the soviet union is history. >> she and her husband raised four children. now she has her first granddaughter, olivia, and is excited to spend more time with her family. >> ann compton, everybody knows is not only the consummate professional but also just a pleasure to get to know. i was proud to be able to hug her grandbaby recently. i suspect that may have something to do with her decision. >> when the president of the united states announces on...
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impact on ronald reagan to move him to the point where he had a discussions that he did with mikael gorbachev. i think that is the goal of the 20,er 20, 21 -- september 21, and i plan to be part of it. >> you are talking about this march on september 21, the major climate march that will be taking part here as people at the u.n. are weighing the issue of climate change. what hast in your life influenced you most on this issue, and where does that leave the coal plant that is so significant in york county, the brayton point coal plant? >> professor mckibbin has really influenced me. i remember beginning to read books andwalk -- his insights that in the late 1980's when i was living on tape god. i tried to get involved in some infernal causes then. i have been a passionate environment was from the time i became a adult. the influences are what i read, the shows i watch on television. i saw a program last weekend or two weekends ago about deforestation in indonesia. those are some of the influences. what was the second part of your question again? >> talking about the influences and also where d
impact on ronald reagan to move him to the point where he had a discussions that he did with mikael gorbachev. i think that is the goal of the 20,er 20, 21 -- september 21, and i plan to be part of it. >> you are talking about this march on september 21, the major climate march that will be taking part here as people at the u.n. are weighing the issue of climate change. what hast in your life influenced you most on this issue, and where does that leave the coal plant that is so...
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russia will been leave the theoric nuclear agreement reagan and gorbachev signed to abolish short range nuclear missiles. it was the first time nuclear weapons ever had been abolished. where are the nuclear abolitionist today? where are these people going to? we're looking at a nuclear arms race. the tripwire from using these weapons is enormous. one other thing, russia has about i think, 10,000 tactical nuclear weapons. you use these for short distances. you don't need an airplane or missile. they can be fired from artillery. their nuclear, radioactive. russia has about 10,000. we have about 500. russia's military doctrine clearly says that if russia is threatened by overwhelming conventional forces, we will use tactical nuclear weapons. ourhen obama boasts than conventional weapons are vastly superior to russia, he is feeding into this argument by the russian hawks that we have to get our tactical nuclear weapons ready. so bring nato -- i mean, bring ukraine into nato, and all this stuff will be up and ready and then it will just take the shootdown of an aircraft. there seems to be an
russia will been leave the theoric nuclear agreement reagan and gorbachev signed to abolish short range nuclear missiles. it was the first time nuclear weapons ever had been abolished. where are the nuclear abolitionist today? where are these people going to? we're looking at a nuclear arms race. the tripwire from using these weapons is enormous. one other thing, russia has about i think, 10,000 tactical nuclear weapons. you use these for short distances. you don't need an airplane or missile....
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other presidents, reagan's diplomacy with gorbachev, one of the hallmark achievements, clinton bringing in china in the wtl, military action in kosovo without u.n. approval, and bush and the iraq surge and financial calamity, other things that ensued in the last two years of his administration, and very much for this president these could be actually maybe the most meaningful years of his presidency. where do you stand on that? >> these things are connected. one rear, you named off a litany of foreign policy accomplishments or events that happened with presidents in the last years of their term. often become lame ducks in the sense they can't pass an immigration bill, budget, a tax cut, can't pass postal service renaming. it gives an incentive to focus more on foreign policy. if you go back to 2009 when president obama is trying to pass obamacare, they would have been loathe to get into any foreign policy conflict that would potentially zap support from an aggressive domestic agenda. when there's no domestic agenda, the ability to spend political capital, time, intellectual resources an
other presidents, reagan's diplomacy with gorbachev, one of the hallmark achievements, clinton bringing in china in the wtl, military action in kosovo without u.n. approval, and bush and the iraq surge and financial calamity, other things that ensued in the last two years of his administration, and very much for this president these could be actually maybe the most meaningful years of his presidency. where do you stand on that? >> these things are connected. one rear, you named off a...
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johnny carson said, there are lot of big confrontations this week as the audience giggled, reagan and gorbachev, bets and astros and me versus the hoonymooner's lost episodeses. her show was gone a year later and declared she had been raped by fox. three months later he her husband was found dead. took two years to get her career going again but she did not stop until she died. she didn't stop until she went into a hospital a week ago. joan rivers never stopped. she appeared in clubs and on tv shows, including "the hollywood squares." who can forget joan rivers in the center square. she appeared on broadway and released more comedy albums and books, most recently "diary of a mad diva." she once joke thread was not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl. she was born joan molinski in brooklyn to russian immigrants, doctor and his wife. she had a privileged upbringing but struggled with weight. she was a self-proclaimed fatty as a child. she recalled using make-believe as an escape, and after graduating from barnard college in 195 4 she worked as a department store fashion cord nate
johnny carson said, there are lot of big confrontations this week as the audience giggled, reagan and gorbachev, bets and astros and me versus the hoonymooner's lost episodeses. her show was gone a year later and declared she had been raped by fox. three months later he her husband was found dead. took two years to get her career going again but she did not stop until she died. she didn't stop until she went into a hospital a week ago. joan rivers never stopped. she appeared in clubs and on tv...
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and the degree to which the myth of rouhani has been created along the same lines as the myth of gorbachev is a real throwback for me. because i remember back in those days, as one soviet dictator after another emerged, they always had their bohemian aspects. they liked jazz. they were head of the kgb, but they liked dixieland music, so there was a human element to them and so on. rouhani is a man of the system. he's a pure product of the system. he came of age in it, he worked in it all his life. he's always been a loyal servant of the system itself. and now here he is at the top. and people don't talk much about what he's really all about, and what he really wants. why does he take off in these different positions? because the main game that's being played inside iran right now, among the various factions who are contending among one another, is who is going to succeed khomeini? khomeini is believed to be sick. it's true he should have died long since, if he's anywhere near as sick as the stories say he is. but anyway, people think he's sick. and no one would be surprised, let's put it t
and the degree to which the myth of rouhani has been created along the same lines as the myth of gorbachev is a real throwback for me. because i remember back in those days, as one soviet dictator after another emerged, they always had their bohemian aspects. they liked jazz. they were head of the kgb, but they liked dixieland music, so there was a human element to them and so on. rouhani is a man of the system. he's a pure product of the system. he came of age in it, he worked in it all his...
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gorbachev, tear down that wall. what happened to people speaking in common english? >> well, that isn't the style right now. the president is more analytical, he's more in his rhetoric, he's cool in his rhetoric to a point that many people find disengaged. that's his style -- >> so that's a polite way of saying it doesn't work. >> well, it has not worked of late. obviously, he's been elected twice to the presidency with convincing margins, and so, it's worked in some ways, but his rhetoric has tended to -- his problem right now isn't his rhetoric, it's the facts on the ground, that he's faked his policies and staked one set of policies, they didn't work, now he's going in a different direction, a direction by the way in which he's catching up with the country, rather than leading the country. in that sense, he doesn't have the same kind of hurdle to convince that he's had. the real convincing he has to do is for these persuade people he's serious and he'll be serious about following through. >> how would you advice the president. what does he need to say tonight to t
gorbachev, tear down that wall. what happened to people speaking in common english? >> well, that isn't the style right now. the president is more analytical, he's more in his rhetoric, he's cool in his rhetoric to a point that many people find disengaged. that's his style -- >> so that's a polite way of saying it doesn't work. >> well, it has not worked of late. obviously, he's been elected twice to the presidency with convincing margins, and so, it's worked in some ways, but...
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i used to work for sharanski and when gorbachev was asked why did you release him? he said anywhere i went the only thing people would speak to me about was him. you can ask some of the foreign nuclear negotiators in the room at the beginnings of meeting with soviet nuclear negotiators, they would bring up the names and that had a real effect on soviet policy and so that was just one small confrontation but it's one that i think we can all be part of recreating over and over so we don't let the regime get away with their absolutely absurd narrative that things are getting much better at a time when there are still thousands of people in prison, lawyers and christian leaders. >> go ahead, michael. >> i want to say it goes -- this goes back to people don't get the importance of what david is talking about, but even during the holocaust, european countries found, above all the danes who were very good at this, when people wrote letters to concentration camp prisoners, sent them presents, wrote them postcards, whatever, that they had a much better survival rate than peo
i used to work for sharanski and when gorbachev was asked why did you release him? he said anywhere i went the only thing people would speak to me about was him. you can ask some of the foreign nuclear negotiators in the room at the beginnings of meeting with soviet nuclear negotiators, they would bring up the names and that had a real effect on soviet policy and so that was just one small confrontation but it's one that i think we can all be part of recreating over and over so we don't let the...
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promised gorbachev that they would dismantle the soviet union and become part of nato and would be one superpower. second, that didn't happen in. third, george bush promised putin that the u.s. would not be in eastern europe. second, james baker promised putin that the u.s. would not go when one engine to eastern europe and that happened in malta and now here we are inducing a revolution in the ukraine, the majority of the people do not want to join nato and the country is split. and we have $17.5 trillion deficit due to the iraqi lawyer and how we are going to resolve our problems instead of having to support the revolution and other countries simply because of our interest and oil interests. no one in the world, i don't mean no one. 5% of the world and we have europe, which is another 10% of the world may agree with us. the rest of the road, especially the support to israel do not agree with us and no matter what we do over there, whoever comes into power, they are not going to agree with us. >> host: robert levinson. >> guest: the caller talks about certain promises made at the end
promised gorbachev that they would dismantle the soviet union and become part of nato and would be one superpower. second, that didn't happen in. third, george bush promised putin that the u.s. would not be in eastern europe. second, james baker promised putin that the u.s. would not go when one engine to eastern europe and that happened in malta and now here we are inducing a revolution in the ukraine, the majority of the people do not want to join nato and the country is split. and we have...
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promised gorbachev that the soviet union would become part of nato and become one superpower. second, that didn't happen. third, george bush promised putin that the u.s. would not interfere in eastern europe. second, james aker promised putin at the u.s. would not go in one inch into eastern europe thomas and that happened in malta. in the here we are revolution in the ukraine. the majority of the people do not want to join nato and the havery is split, and we $17.5 trillion deficit. he wore.e iraq how will we resolve our own problems instead of having to support revolutions and induce wars in other countries simply because of our interests and oil interests. world, and i don't mean no one, 5% of the world and then europe which is another 10% of the world may agree with us, that the rest of the world, especially with our support to israel, do not agree with us. power, theys into are not going to agree with us. >> robert levinson. >> the caller talks about certain promises made at the end of the cold war. one that was made about the ukraine. ukraine had nuclear weapons at the e
promised gorbachev that the soviet union would become part of nato and become one superpower. second, that didn't happen. third, george bush promised putin that the u.s. would not interfere in eastern europe. second, james aker promised putin at the u.s. would not go in one inch into eastern europe thomas and that happened in malta. in the here we are revolution in the ukraine. the majority of the people do not want to join nato and the havery is split, and we $17.5 trillion deficit. he wore.e...